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==Epidemiology and Demographics== | ==Epidemiology and Demographics== | ||
===Prevalence=== | |||
* Worldwide, it is the second leading cause of blindness.<ref>[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/dispomim.cgi?id=606657 "Glaucoma, Normal Tension, Susceptibility To."] OMIM - Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man. Accessed October 17, 2006.</ref> | |||
* Glaucoma affects one in two hundred people aged fifty and younger and one in ten over the age of eighty. | |||
===Gender=== | ===Gender=== | ||
* Women are three times more likely than men to develop [[acute]] angle-closure glaucoma due to their shallower [[anterior chamber]]s. | * Women are three times more likely than men to develop [[acute]] angle-closure glaucoma due to their shallower [[anterior chamber]]s. | ||
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* African Americans are three times more likely than Caucasians to develop primary open angle glaucoma. | * African Americans are three times more likely than Caucasians to develop primary open angle glaucoma. | ||
* Asians are susceptible to angle-closure glaucoma, and Inuit have a twenty to forty times higher risk than Caucasians of developing primary angle closure glaucoma. | * Asians are susceptible to angle-closure glaucoma, and Inuit have a twenty to forty times higher risk than Caucasians of developing primary angle closure glaucoma. | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]
Epidemiology and Demographics
Prevalence
- Worldwide, it is the second leading cause of blindness.[1]
- Glaucoma affects one in two hundred people aged fifty and younger and one in ten over the age of eighty.
Gender
- Women are three times more likely than men to develop acute angle-closure glaucoma due to their shallower anterior chambers.
Race
- African Americans are three times more likely than Caucasians to develop primary open angle glaucoma.
- Asians are susceptible to angle-closure glaucoma, and Inuit have a twenty to forty times higher risk than Caucasians of developing primary angle closure glaucoma.
References
- ↑ "Glaucoma, Normal Tension, Susceptibility To." OMIM - Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man. Accessed October 17, 2006.